chop2chip (05-16-2017)
Dude. When you are putting Mike Huckabee's spawn on TV you've got to be trawling the bottom of the barrel.
Spicer's all but had his dick kicked in and he's still out there spewing half-coherent sentences, so he earns props from me ... but it might be getting to the point where the baton needs to be passed.
So...starting on day one (largest crowd...PERIOD) they've screwed their credibility, reportedly at the behest of the boss. They've continued through the Flynn firing and two months' worth of self-inflicted harm because of the "wire-tapping." But it's the flacks' fault and not the boss's. Sure.
Ok. Why do you suppose it leaked, then? If, as CNN has reported, the media was asked not to divulge certain information, but the President decided to do so in that context, why did somebody on his team think it was worthwhile enough to spill it to the Post? If it's actually a giant nothingburger, why the leak?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/u...=Facebook&_r=0
WASHINGTON — President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly after the meeting.
“I hope you can let this go,” the president told Mr. Comey, according to the memo.
Forever Fredi
Sounds totally legit.
Somewhat feel like this is the straw that broke the camel's back for DJT.
No (R) is going to want to touch this mess. I don't think he gets impeached, but I think you'll start to see more and more Republicans distance themselves from him to clear the stink before mid-terms.
http://theresurgent.com/i-know-one-of-the-sources/
Conservative pundit Erick Erickson is vouching for the reliability of a least one source who revealed to Washington Post reporters that President Donald Trump disclosed “highly classified information” while meeting with Russian officials last week.
Erickson knows one of the sources and supports their decision to go to the media, he wrote Tuesday in a blog post for his website, The Resurgent.
“This is a real problem and I treat this story very seriously because I know just how credible, competent, and serious — as well as seriously pro-Trump, at least one of the sources is,” Erickson wrote.
“You can call these sources disloyal, traitors, or whatever you want,” he added. “But please ask yourself a question — if the President, through inexperience and ignorance, is jeopardizing our national security and will not take advice or corrective action, what other means are available to get the President to listen and recognize the error of his ways?”
The President does not seem to realize or appreciate that his bragging can undermine relationships with our allies and with human intelligence sources.
Erickson wrote that people close to the president find him too insecure to take constructive criticism as anything other than a personal attack. So sources have gone to the media in the hopes that “the intense blowback” may force Trump to recognize his errors.
FFF - BB, BB, 2B, HR, 2B, HR, 1B, BB, BB, 1B, BB, BB, HR
I don't think that this job was going to be easy for any spox given the campaign and the incessant gnashing of teeth all the way up to, and after, the inauguration. Is it Trump's fault? Sure, yeah, some of it. At the same time, I'm not about to give a free pass to media outlets which have opted to go full on Entertainment Tonight over the course of this administration.
I mean, don't get me wrong...the people suck, too. But that's also a reflection of the boss.
So, sure, they can hire more skilled flacks. More to the point, they could hire somebody to run the thing who could actually instill message discipline across the board . . . but the biggest message discipline issue has been the fact that the president himself has consistently ****ed the comm team's messaging.
It doesn't matter who they hire. It's the clay, not the sculptor.
Ah, the same Erick Erickson who uninvited Trump from RedState.
Yeah, no bad blood there.
The entire world knows Trup was just doing his puffed up self-important routine. That's the ONLY tune he knows. Any serious information should not have been passed in such a silly, ostentatious way. If it was, it only shows what an incompetent fool he is, which of course is old news.
Regardless of any information he may have used as a prop, this was all about our President flaunting his power to the Dems, the media, the Russians and the world and the fact that it happened juxtaposed to the Comey firing was not a coincidence.
FFF - BB, BB, 2B, HR, 2B, HR, 1B, BB, BB, 1B, BB, BB, HR
Personally, given Trump, I would spend less time channeling Sam Seaborn and more time 'letting Trump be Trump' ... let's face the music, it's 2017, and the art of the cohesive political message is (unfortunately) essentially dead.
Trump went respectable with Spicer and Priebus when he should have gone full-on tawdry with the Laura Ingraham's and Giuliani's and Christie's.
He's never going to curry real favor with the press, their bread and butter is antagonization. He's got to go full bore down the path his administration has been tip-toeing around.
Who sent Spicer out to insist on the yugeness of the inaugural crowd?
Who hired Mike Flynn, then fired him after an uncomfortable interval once his prevarication came to light?
Who fired the FBI director, then stepped all over his peoples' rationale for why it was done?
The media did that, I guess.